It would be a shame to allow Alexis de Tocqueville’s birthday — his 210th — to pass unremarked. The perceptive Frenchman, born on July 29, 1805, made a tour of our country in 1831 and penned his classic, “Democracy in America.” He clearly loved the new nation and its government based on ideas, not power. But he just as clearly saw the…

BEREA, Ohio (AP) — In his strongest statements yet regarding the direction of the Cleveland Browns since taking over as owner in 2012, Jimmy Haslam vowed to be patient and not make more changes if things go poorly this season. "We're not going to blow things up, OK? I think we are on the right track and not blow things up," Haslam said after

The quarterback is usually the face of a football team. During conference media days, those faces are often difficult to find. No Christian Hackenberg for Penn State. No Deshaun Watson for Clemson. No Anu Solomon for Arizona. Neither Cardale Jones nor J.T. Barrett for Ohio State. Cautious coaches tend to lean toward rewarding upperclassmen with

The Humane Society of Northeast Texas held its Dog Days of Summer in Longview on Saturday. This event provided discounted adoption rates on large dogs while offering games, prizes and raffle items as well.

A recent Texas Supreme Court ruling had it mostly right; the city of Houston failed to respond properly to citizens opposing the overreach of the city’s Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) — they collected enough signatures to put the issue on the ballot, but the city denied their petition. The court backed their petition, but it didn’t go far enough in protecting churches and businesses in Houston that have already run afoul of the city’s ordinance — in particular, pastors who were told to submit their sermons to City Hall.

Dr. Emmanuel Elueze, an associate professor of medicine at UT Health Northeast and program director of the Internal Medicine Residency Program based at Good Shepherd Medical Center in Longview, has been named a 2015 UT System Board of Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award recipient.

Nothing makes you think more about health than a birthday, and that’s a good thing. That grand milestone helps you to evaluate your state of health, not just physically, but also emotionally and spiritually.

The sprayground at Faulkner Park is alive with the sights and sounds of splashing water and children’s laughter. No one loves the sound of children’s laughter or the pop of a tennis ball at the nearby tennis courts more than Robert Faulkner.

Americans, with their tax dollars, are required to pay for countless things they find objectionable. From wars they might oppose to studies they definitely find absurd — just this week we learned we’re funding one to determine why lesbians are disproportionately obese — it’s infuriating to know that we have no say over how the government spends our hard-earned money.

Times are tough — at least, that’s what any presidential candidate not running as an incumbent (i.e., all of them) has to acknowledge during the next 15 months. And most will be proposing all sorts of government fixes for the problems we all face.

WASHINGTON (TNS) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent and received emails through her private server containing sensitive U.S. and foreign government information on a range of issues — from an American detained in Myanmar and Iran’s nuclear program to the Afghanistan war — that State Department reviewers have now classified.

WASHINGTON (TNS) — President Barack Obama’s determination to persuade the public and Congress to support a historic nuclear agreement with Iran may soon run headlong against a proven political adversary: August.

The city of Tyler uses chloramines — a combination of free chlorine and ammonia — to disinfect its drinking water supply prior to distributing it to customers. This is a reliable disinfection process that has been recommended by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality for systems predominately treating surface waters, such as those comprising the majority of Tyler’s water supply.